Oh.My.God. to what thos turned?!
We will always remember...
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Tea024 wrote:
Tea was a great sis and person. Youll se am i or am i not. Im maya.
this is guilt-tripping, idk how you guys can't tell ;-;
theredlazersword wrote:
She was already disliked on otf just so yk. No one believes her
I do. This is very likely to not be real.
But it doesn’t really matter. Real or fake, this shouldn’t have been posted.
EDIT: blocked by the OP for stating the truth. That’s about all I need to know about this situation and its intentions. This seems to be an attention-seeking scheme to get comments, which, admittedly, worked.
Bro I js read the first comment and I know nothing about the situation but that is the fakest thing I’ve ever read…
Here’s the origins and definitions of each word, courtesy of the NAOD.
Sympathy origin: late 16th century (in sympathy (sense 3)): via Latin from Greek sumpatheia, from sumpathēs, from sun-'with' + pathos 'feeling'.
Empathy origin: early 20th century: from Greek empathia (from em-'in' + pathos feeling')
Sympathy definitions: feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune or understanding between people; common feeling
Empathy definition: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another
What the dictionary won’t tell you, however, is how these words differ in scale to this information (particularly to the Greek origins).
Sympathy (sumpathēs) indicates feeling with.
Empathy (empathia) is distinctly different, meaning feeling in.
I’ll use this short example from Joe Rigney’s “The Sin of Empathy” to illustrate firstly, why empathy is the wrong word to utilize, and secondly, why being empathetic is often not viable.
Suppose someone were drowning in quicksand, and you had the ability to save them, how would you do it?
Would you reach your arm out to try to pull them out, or would you step into the quicksand to help?
This is the difference between empathy and sympathy.
You are not being empathetic by agreeing with the NAOD’s definition of empathy, you are being compassionate and sympathetic.
The origin of sympathy and empathy are instrumental to determining which word is correct to use.
If you have experienced this exact situation, then use empathy, but for the majority of us, I severely doubt that we have dealt with identical loss.
I’m not trying to put y’all in a corner, I just feel quite passionate about these distinctions between the two words, especially when our own dictionaries can twist what words mean now.